America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

Mikhail Gorbachev

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

Life punishes those who come too late.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.